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The first official mobile game from the South Park universe - South Park: Phone Destroyer - has crashed its way onto iOS and Android . All of the microtransactions are optional and can be disabled in the game's menu, though expect to encounter some grinding later on in the story if you're adamant to play through the entirety of South Park: Phone Destroyer's campaign without spending anything. Read More »

Just last month, Nintendo updated its fiscal year 2017-2018 forecast for the Switch to 17 million units sold by March 2018 , the console's 13th month on sale. If interest persists, it's plausible that the Switch could one day outsell the original Wii, the company's most popular home console to date with more than 100 million units shipped. Read More »

Two of the search giant's " Project Loon " balloons are already over the country enabling texts, emails and basic web access. A significant portion of Puerto Rico , still struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Maria , is still without cell tower reception, with the Federal Communications Commission reporting earlier today that almost 44 percent of Puerto Rico cell sites are still out of service. Read More »

In December 2015, it announced the end of its much-criticized kafala system, under which all foreign workers needed a local sponsor in order to work, maintain residency, switch jobs or leave the country. "Qatar has set a new standard for the Gulf states, and this must be followed by Saudi Arabia and the [United Arab Emirates], where millions of migrant workers are trapped in modern slavery", confederation general secretary Sharan Burrow said in a statement. Read More »

Saudi Arabia has said that the ballistic missile had a range of more than 900 km and was made in Iran, describing that attack as an "act of war". "They are subsidies of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard", Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubair said. Read More »

The news sent Just Dial shares - which have been putting up a lackluster performance for several quarters - up 20% today. Shares of Just Dial were trading at Rs 545.90 apiece at noon, up around 19 per cent from its previous day's closing. Read More »

The best thing to do is to wait until Jeep unveils the Scrambler and see if the vehicle has got what it takes to take a beating in the wilderness. Beginning with the dashboard trim, it can now be specified with the same color finish as the exterior paint which gives it a more youthful vibe. Read More »

Sogou is launching American Depository Receipts on the NY exchange, with each representing one of the company's Class A ordinary shares. The shares initially rose as much as 13% when the stock began trading on Thursday in NY, but later gave back most of the gains and closed a modest 4% higher at $13.50. Read More »

A trend analysis is a method of analysis that allows traders to foresee what will come about with a stock in upcoming days. The market cap of 11.53B for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc .in today's market indicated its current strength, making the company's shares a lucrative one. Read More »

Coming to specs, the Panasonic Eluga I5 comes with a 5-inch HD display tagged with 720×1280 pixels resolution and 2.5D curved Asahi Dragontrail glass on top. On the camera front, the device sports a rear camera of 13-megapixel which has a 5P lens, f/2.2 aperture as well modes like HDR, Face Beauty, Panoramic. Read More »

GameStop SVP of merchandising Bob Puzon left the following statement to Gamespot : "Sales of the new Xbox One X have been incredible!" Unfortunately, I own the digital version of the game, which automatically downloads patches when installed, so my copy of The Witcher 3 maintains its locked 30 frames per second on the Xbox One X. Read More »

Niantic announced that it will team up with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and WB Games San Francisco's development team, users will be able to experience what it's like to live in J.K. Remember a year ago when the world lost its mind and spent several months solid playing Pokemon Go?! Like 2016's Pokemon Go , Wizards Unite builds on the framework set by Ingress , Niantic's first augmented reality mobile game. Read More »

That coincided with escalating tensions in the region, pitting rivals Iran and Lebanon against Saudi Arabia. U.S. President Donald Trump has appeared to welcome Saudi monarch King Salman's recent decision to arrest dozens of princes, government officials and business leaders in the kingdom. Read More »

Bloomberg , citing sources familiar with the matter, reports that the AR system would utilize its own display and be powered by a new chip and operating system - and unlike current models, it would not need an accompanying smartphone to function. Read More »

However, the company is known to be "inspired" from Apple for most of its products and it seems that they are at it again for their flagship Mi MIX 2 . It also isn't the first time that other versions of Mi Mix smartphones have been rumored, so we'll have to wait for the company to confirm that. The company began its expansion with a sale launch in Spain on Wednesday. Read More »

Apple Pay Cash is available on iOS 11 .2, now available as a public beta 2 for developers and testers. When Apple Pay launched in September 2014, United Kingdom iPhone users did not receive the feature until nearly a year later (July 2015). Read More »

Video game stories from other sites on the web. Well, apparently that changes this week, as Nintendo has revealed Hulu is coming to the Switch . The Nintendo Switch's max resolution is 1080p when docked and 720p when in handheld mode. In this, there are areas we are well-suited to, and possibilities for multiplatform development, and we have high expectations for the Switch. Read More »

This was hinted by Sushil Kumar Modi , the deputy Chief Minister of Bihar who is also the member of GST council. "The GST fitment committee has also recommended reducing tax rates from 18 per cent to 12 per cent on a number of goods", Modi said. Read More »

Jio's own cashback vouchers worth Rs. 400/- will be available instantly in the MyJio app . Jio has announced a triple cashback offer of up to Rs 2599 on every recharge of Rs 399 or above, exclusively for its Prime members. These new offers will start from October 10 and can be availed until November 25, 2017. For recharges done using partner wallets, the cashback of Rs. Read More »

Facebook is trying to fight revenge porn by encouraging users in Australia to submit their nude photos to prevent them from being shared without their consent. In the digital world today, deleting something never really deletes it, Adam Levin, founder of cybersecurity firm CyberScout, told "Today". The program launched by Facebook is governed under eSafety and the eSafety officer stated that if a Facebook user in Australia is concerned about an intimate or adult image which is spreading ... Read More »

The accident was made public three days later on Wednesday and comes at a time when the company is experiencing an unprecedented rate of launch. The current generation of engines, known as Block IV, have not been impacted by the failure and will continue to fly payloads for SpaceX customers, meaning the incident will not affect this or next year's launches. Read More »

Basically, AMD's graphics boss is becoming Intel's graphics boss. It's now confirmed that Raja Koduri has joined Intel as their Chief Architect, and Senior Vice President of the newly-formed Visual Computing Group. "We have exciting plans to aggressively expand our computing and graphics capabilities and build on our very strong and broad differentiated IP foundation". Read More »

Once it gets through the mantle, it spreads out under the crust, providing magma for volcanic eruptions. The possibility that a deep mantle plume manifests Pliocene and Quaternary volcanism and potential elevated heat flux in West Antarctica has been studied for more than 30 years. Read More »

In a new study published in Nature , the team of global researchers discuss what could possibly account for the extremely long brightening period. The discovery throws mankind's basic knowledge about supernovas, the large explosions at the end of a star's life cycle, out the window. Read More »

By removing the home button, Apple plans to noticeably reduce the size of the edges on the top and bottom of the device for the first time since its introduction in 2010, bringing the design closer to that of the recently released flagship iPhone X . Read More »

When Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $ 26 billion past year, it said that it's going to integrated the professional social network with its Office applications. [ Click on image for larger view .] Resume Assistant presents information relevant to the Word user's resume straight from LinkedIn . They have included LinkedIn integrations into Outlook to enhance contact info in your email inbox, which was the first step in a bigger strategy announced in September of this year to integrate ... Read More »

The company said the decision to expand the character count was aimed at making it "easier and faster for everyone to express themselves". Japanese, Korean and Chinese users will still only have 140 characters. Meaning that you can now tweet up to 280 characters to the twittersphere. Let's hypothesise with ten of Twitter's most iconic tweets. However, these users don't have trouble with the 140-character limit due to the density of their languages. Read More »

Niantic Labs have had phenomenal success with Pokemon Go . The idea of Niantic working on another game while Pokemon GO is still plagued by bugs and missing features sounds a bit insane, but it's not surprising to see the company attempting to extend its hold on the market of mobile AR games. Read More »

Exane BNP Paribas has upgraded Nokia (NYSE: NOK ) from Underperform to Neutral in a statement released on Tuesday November 07, 2017. Analysts have given a mean recommendation of 2.70 on this stock (A rating of less than 2 means buy, "hold" within the 3 range, "sell" within the 4 range, and "strong sell" within the 5 range). Read More »

After the event at the Microsoft Store, the group linked up with other celebrities guests Leslie Jones, Kenan Thompson, Method Man, Vanessa Bayer, Mikey Day, Beck Bennett , Geoffrey Arrend, Jerry Ferrara and many more at an exclusive Xbox One X launch event party. Read More »

The telco has provided a court-enforceable undertaking to the ACCC to offer affected customers the option of a costless exit from their contract and a refund, moving to a different speed plan and receiving a refund, or remaining on their current plan and not receiving a refund. Read More »

Now we've seen social media platforms introduce ways of reporting such incidents, but usually that's only after it has already happened. Now the Facebook's new way to tackle revenge porn is going to be tested only in Australia although a Facebook spokesperson told the Guardian that it is exploring partnerships with other organisations in other countries to test something similar. Read More »

They found themselves trying to explain the lack of an investigator, particularly when a legislative activist went public with her complaint of sexual harassment against powerful state Sen. Biss, a gubernatorial candidate, was among three Democrats calling on Silverstein to resign. He told reporters he'd love to talk, but that his first conversation would be with the inspector general, "which I hope to have as soon as possible", he said. Read More »

The new scheme from Airtel works similar to its postpaid data rollover scheme which it introduced a few months back. The 699 one below that doesn't appear to feature it. The Vodafone Red Traveler plan comes with free national roaming, free data quotas upto 200 GB and data roll over feature allowing customers to carry forward unused data , where as the Red International plan brings to the customres free ISD minutes to USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Read More »